Nativity Quilt

This quilt was brought to me by a lady who works at Gracie Lou's. It is for a friend of hers. The applique Nativity is so cute, she wanted me to just stitch around it, in an outline, and then do an allover pattern with stars.

She had stitched on some stars and a saying at the bottom, which I quilted around as well.

A close-up of the stars and loops pattern I used. I used a wheat colored thread, that matched the backing fabric perfectly, and didn't draw too much attention to itself on the front of the quilt either.

Flannel Rag Quilt

I did a quilt similar to this one a few months ago for Gracie Lou's Quilt Shoppe. One of the ladies who works there made this quilt, and wanted it quilted similarly to how I quilted the shop sample.
I did a small star in the center square, and then a loop with stars in the borders. It turned out really cute.

I used a baby blue color of thread.

Baby pinwheels

This cute baby quilt was brought to me by my client "Joy". She also brought in the pattern because she wanted it quilted as closely to the sample as possible.
I stitched in the ditch on the small pinwheel, and quilted a square on its side around it. The block itself is also stitched in the ditch. The big pinwheel blocks are only quilted in half the triangles, and are not quilted around the outside in the ditch. In the sashing there are both horizontal and vertical lines, about 1/4 inch from each side. The outer blue border has 2 lines in it as well, about 1/2 inch from the edges, and about 1/2 inch from each other. In order to achieve straight lines, I used my horizontal and vertical channel locks on my Gammill Classic Plus machine.

In the outer border there are flowers quilted in the squares. They are outlined by what looks like a near perfect circle, but are really just arcs on each side of the square.

I think this quilt is so fun! I love the baby boy fabrics she used!

Anniversary Quilt

This was such a cute idea! I got a call last week from a lady who was doing an anniversary quilt, and needed it rushed through. She was willing to pay the rush charge, so I took it. I wish I could've taken more pictures, but since there was personal information all over the quilt, I cannot post them.
I did a continuous loop/heart pattern. I love that they found old pictures of the couple and put them at the top of the quilt. She used a lot of iron-on photo transfer. Underneath the center picture at the top, it had the names of the happy couple and their wedding date. Below that, in three columns, they had pictures of what I assume are the children and grandchildren of the couple. The quilt was relatively small, about the size of a wallhanging, but was so cute!

In the lower bottom corner was this small white square with "50 years" printed on it. She wanted hearts done in the corner, since she had run out of iron-on transfer for what she wanted to put there.

Congratulations for making it this far and best wishes on continuing your journey together for a long time hereafter!

Feathers, feathers, everywhere!

This one was the second quilt I did this month for my client, "M". It was huge! But it turned out really nicely. It took me about a week to complete the quilting, which surprised even me, because I did a lot of quilting on it.
There were 99 blocks on this quilt. I took sets of 4s and quilted a feather 'x' motif through them. Then I meandered throughout the background.

In the border I did a long feather. It streched from the middle of the short sides of the quilt, around the corner, and ended in the middle of the long side of the quilt. This made two continuous, long feathers in the border. It looked really cool. There was a smaller border that I did a continuous squiggle in.

I love the way it looks on the back of the quilt! I used navy blue thread, and she provided me with wool batting, which quilts up beautifully, so the end effect was really quite splendid.

The feathered 'x' is a design I came up with in one of my "doodle sessions" as I call them, and is available for use in other quilts if desired.

Racing

This cute quilt is for another of the ladies up at Gracie Lou's. It had such cute fabric. It was all racing themed, with several flame fabrics in the mix.
It has black Minkee on the back. I used a black thread,and quilted flames across the quilt. It turned out so cute!

I had tried to find a flame pantograph, but nobody had one like I wanted, so I ended up freehanding the flames with the quilting machine. I had originally drawn several designs out on paper, but ended up just using them as a guide. I also used the flame fabrics as a reference for how I wanted the flames to turn out. For the most part, the flames are all a continuous pattern across the quilt, with several small flames quilted in empty spaces.

Charm Pack Table Runner

This is the best idea! A customer at Gracie Lou's had me quilt this one with a stipple. She used fabrics from a Merry & Bright charm pack (Moda fabrics).
It was a super simple quilt, but it turned out so cute, and will definitely make her table a little more festive during the holidays!